An exciting and well-written book by Mayne Reid based on his experiences during the war between America and Mexico in the 1840s. Reid took the title of "Captain" because that was what his men called him during that war, although he was never promoted to that rank.
The importance of Reid's books with this background is that they were among the first in the Wild West genre.
| Identifier: | Captain_Mayne_Reid_The_White_Chief |
| Mediatype: | texts |
| Licenseurl: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ |
| Rights: | We used a Plustek OpticBook 3600 scanner to scan the pages. We then made a pdf which we used to assist with checking and editing the OCRed text.
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| Coverage: | Early nineteenth century; North America |
| Identifier-access: | http://www.archive.org/details/Captain_Mayne_Reid_The_White_Chief |
| Identifier-ark: | ark:/13960/t9g44n97s |
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| Imagecount: | 448 |
| Ppi: | 72 |
| Ocr: | ABBYY FineReader 8.0 |
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